I know I know I can see the eyebrows shoot up past the hairlines.  When I read it out loud I did my own  cheap Mr. Spock imitation.  I imagined myself handing him my weblog in printed form, and him asking me the following question… “Anointed Vessel, please elucidate on the meaning of the verbose and rhetorical nature of the title” .  Ha ha …. cha ching!!! there goes the penny I’ll make in writing science fiction…  Anyhoo,  what I want to talk about this time around is discipline.    As I hit the Sixty pound mark on my weight loss journey and six mile mark on my miles that I walk per day, I think wow is there an easier way? Inevitabely the answer is no and I realize that it takes discipline to get results.  When I first asked God to help me lose weight, I expected to get up every morning and get on the scale and be a pound less, I expected my metabolism to miraculously burn up fat, and to become thin overnight.  I became angry at God because I didn’t see change, I tried to get a surgeon to do it for me, and I was turned down because I didn’t qualify,  I actually needed to be a little bit bigger than I was.  I was so angry I vowed to eat myself to that weight in defience and make them do the surgery.  Then one day I was walking, let me change that I was riding around in the store (back when I did things like that due to sheer laziness), and I saw a little boy showing off and throwing a tantrum.  His mother said something that almost made me wreck the little shopping cart scooter,  “little Johnny,  you’re  just asking for a whippin” ,   Ok I’m just gonna throw down politically correct and say,  “I know them words”.  However; I never knew what they meant, but right at that moment it struck me like the apple struck Newton when he had his Eureeka moment.  Little Johnny (not his real name of course),  was asking for discipline from his mother,  now I’m sure he and she probably didn’t have the same thing in mind, but he was a child out of control and he needed her to,  (for lack of a better phrase)…pump his brakes.  You see,  in young people the pre-frontal cortex,  or the higher reasoning portion of the brain is immature,  meaning they don’t see consequences until after they do something. The phrase,  “Hind sight is 20/20″, literally applies to them in more ways than one!  Heres another thing,  have you ever watched the shows on TV with the children of the rich and famous?  Barely less than a half of 1 percent of them make much of themselves outside of their parents money.  Why is this?  Because they have low self worth, and this comes from the fact that they think that their parents HATE them,  yet their parents give them everything.  if you watched the Osbornes,  the children repeatedly cursed out their parents who let them run like wild animals, gave them no rules (that I could see), and let them smoke, drink and stay out all night!  Both of the younger children ended up in more than one rehabilitation hospital and the dad is a pitifull walking pharmacy,  having fried all of his neurons, from a life devoted to doing just that….frying all his neurons! So how do I come to the conclusion that the kids think their parents hate them?  Ask them yourself?  Children have come pre-programmed with certain reflexes from birth,  and certain instincts as well,  one instinct is for safety and boundry setting.  This is started day one when a mother bonds with her infant,  the baby (which cannot see very well) will rely heavily on smell and the sound of her voice,  the baby has a grasping reflex that causes them to grasp and hold tighty anything that is placed in the hand so the baby learns safety in the arms of the mother first then the father.  Later as the child gets older the parents and teachers teach the child boundaries,  such as…. the boundaries of social behavior;   when to say hi, when to say by, who is  a stranger, when not to speak. what is too close …..the boundaries of safety; what is too cold, where is danger, what is too hot, where not to go, what to avoid , the boundaries of acceptable behavior…. when to go away, when not to speak, when to say thankyou, when to say sorry, how to share,  how to accept no, how to get over disapointment, how to celebrate appropriately,  when to be loud and so on.  It is the child that is not given these boundaries, but instead handed everything they want, that ends up hating their parents because they usually end up realizing that everywhere they go, they end up being the big pink elephant in the room.  So yes, believe it or not,  children sometimes are asking for discipline when they are showing off,  they just may not agree with what you choose.  Ok that’s nice but what’s this got to do with you Anointed?  Lot’s….. you see,  God gave me a chance to do some growth and maturing on my own but I refused to put the bottle down, I disregarded boundaries, I disrespected authority and the list goes on.  I was a bratl! .  just like that little child in the store. If God wanted me to do something, I took me sweet time getting up off of my do nothing to do it.  But in the same day if I needed God to do something for me,  I was praying 911!! and screaming Jesus!!!! at the top of my lungs and I wanted what I wanted right then and there.  If I had gotten myself in a financial mess,  I wanted him to come clean it up that same day, (even though it took me years to do the damage).  Like so many microwave christians.  I wanted to pop my request in the prayer box and press start and by the time I opened my eyes.  I wanted to see results, ( I know click, click, click,  I must be wearing ruby slippers too huh right).  Have you ever been tested and tried and found wanting?  I have, and guess what? God wouldn’t even tell me what I got wrong on the test!! I figured it out, because I  just kept finding myself in the same stupid situation, over and over and over again with the same iritations until…. bling!!!! I got it, and suddenly that irritation was gone, and God spoke in my spirit and let me know that I had come on up a little bit higher, and passed that test.  Now some of us can get a little big headed, and think we have it all together or act a little spoiled and when that happens,  we have forgoten our boundaries.  We have forgotten were we stand in him, and were HE (God) stands in regards to us…..and that is at the head, and as the pilot and not co-pilot.  God doesn’t take orders, and when we start getting all stank or worse start acting divisive, or sewing discord amonst the brethren and walking in the spirit of offence,  we are asking for a whipping.  when God corrects you, you are going to feel it and remember it.   It is the Holy Spirits Job to convict, and he will convict you, and pierce your heart and make it so that you wish that you would never have done whatever it is you did.  Oh yah take it from an old pro, don’t mess around and have to get remedial traning by flunking a lesson.  I heard a preacher once say there is a blessing in the lesson if you pass the test,  in every testimony there is always a test for every mess there is a message.

~Anointed

As I wracked my brain trying to figure out what I would write about this time Anointed Reader’s,  I listened on the nightly news as they rambled on about the 7 gazillion dollar bail out plan and then,  my antenna perked up as they switched over to a health correspondent.  You see folks,  as you already have probably noticed, bad news doesn’t sit well on the stomach and doesn’t do well overall on your health,  Now if you rest in Jesus, what you see in the news shouldn’t rattle you ( unfortunately), not everyone can sit on their “blessed assurance Jesus is mine”  in  “Times such as these”.   Well Anointed.. what times might these be?  Well I’m glad you asked… Let’s look at Luke Chapter 21 This chapter is prophetic in it’s tone as it speaks to that past generation and to this generation which lives in the 21st Century.  The verse I want to hone in on is verse 26

“Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”

Here is the same verse  just another version

Weymouth New Testament
“while men’s hearts are fainting for fear, and for anxious expectation of what is coming on the world. For the forces which control the heavens will be disordered and disturbed.”

Now here is a news article that I grabbed straight from the headlines and I think that this is about as plain as the nose on your faces.  Saint’s and friends the bible is literally playing out page by page,  it’s literally a page turner.  Forget the Daily News just go look outside and then pick up the bible for an update.

Market fears send nation’s stress soaring
By BRUCE HOROVITZ
Original Printing: USA TODAY • September 28, 2008
Reprinted: Reno Gazette-Journal

Albert Levy is a doctor to the wealthy. His Park Avenue office, in a building where co-op apartments start at $3 million, speaks to his success.As the nation lurches through this financial crisis, he’s paying a price for that status — calls at all hours from stressed-out patients, including a trio he received concerning one family:

# Call No. 1: A desperate call from the wife of a 48-year-old patient recently laid off by Credit Suisse, the international bank that sliced its work force amid the credit crisis.

Her husband had suffered an apparent heart attack, she said, and they were in a hospital emergency room.

# Call No. 2: The husband phoned. He described his acute chest pain and asked Levy to join them at the hospital.

# Call No. 3: This call came from hospital staff. Levy conferred with an emergency room doctor, and they decided it wasn’t a heart attack. It was acute anxiety. Or indigestion.

As a nation, we are emotionally struggling to digest each day’s dour economic news. Record home foreclosure filings — more than 2 million January through August. The stock market’s Dow Jones industrial average down 18.4 percent this year. Retirement and college savings crumbling. Then, there’s that looming $700 billion bailout for the financial industry.

“The feeling of self-failure is tremendous,” said Levy, a family physician for 28 years. “Some people feel that at least if they have a real heart attack or stroke, they have a good excuse not to bring money home.”

The credit crisis of recent weeks and economic decline of recent months is pitting clients against brokers or financial advisers. It’s making workers feel insecure in their jobs. And it often leads to quarrels among spouses with different views on how to handle their finances.

Unlike many other forms of stress, such as an upcoming presentation at work or a visit from the in-laws, financial stress doesn’t go away quickly.

Often, a plummeting portfolio or free-falling 401(k) results in behavior that touches an entire family. Fewer family treats. Less family time. And that inner inkling to turn to vices.

“We’ve never had this much activity, not even after 9/11,” said Ann Clark, CEO at ACI Specialty Benefits, a national employee counseling service. “Everyone is asking for help.”

Calls for financial-related consulting to the company are up 85 percent compared with this time last year, Clark said.

‘Hope has been taken away’

The above article is the property of  Reno Gazette-Journal

Copyright ©2008 Reno Gazette-Journal. All rights reserved.

Wow Anointed Vessel Readers……for all the ills of the Sin-nernet,  Man did I miss it.  I finally got my second DSL modem the other day and after a little coaxing with the cmd promt and going into the black screen and poking around with the ipconfig forward slash, release, then forward slash renew, then forward slash oh shoot! I think I have it right this time!! I said second DSL modem earlier because,  the first one that was sent didn’t work.  I won’t even mention how since my big move, I went over a month without a home phone! Why in heavens name would that be you might inquire?  Well that my friends, is because of shaky service from a phone company that gave me a deal that ended up being just what I paid for….CHEAP!!!!  I ended up calling Verizon and getting just what I paid for….. A phone, and an extraordinarily high phone bill to boot!!  yipee- Ki- Yay.   At least I don’t have to go sit in the closet for a brief free wireless signal that dropped in whenever it felt like it,  along with an adware virus that snooped around my computer.  I have never seen my anti-spyware swat so many bugs.  I reviewed my risk logs and they where crammed full, every time I logged on to the free wireless connection.  Sooooo that’s why you guys didn’t see any blogs from me for a while,  I got tired of nosey programs,  snooping around in my computer.  Anyhoo,  I got my little one off to school without a hitch this year,  getting up at 5 in the morning is like being back in the military.  The first week was tiring but now it’s easy,  I find myself crawling into bed at around 9-9:30pm every night.  Ha ha and this coming from an insomniac!!!  Not anymore!  Well that’s it for now,  I have to go do mom things like dust, vacuum, fold laundry, start dinner, walk my four legged brat(not really just spoiled), then walk to bus stop and wait for my baby.   Wooooo all in a day’s work!

Hey but I can’t complain,  to God be the glory for I have lived to see this day!!!

Stay tuned as I crack my knuckles and rattles my marbles and sweep out the cobwebs and stand atop my soap box,  boy oh boy have I got a lot to talk about!!!!!  Yes indeedy!!!

~Anointed

You know what Anointed Vessel Readers? I am just now realizing that I am very strong willed and a little hard headed….and if yall believe that I am JUST NOW figuring that out, I have a nice piece of real estate on the moon I would really like to unload. Anyhoo, A few thousand ( ahem that was a big exaggeration…) posts ago I wrote about my daughter bringing home a picture from school that was actually a demonic attack that was launched against her and myself, (see post entitled “Pray for us”). I did all the right things ( or so I thought), we prayed over the picture took it to church had it torn to pieces and so on. However I was warned by another blogger, (Lavrai), to take the picture down and I ignored it, being assured within my own self that all was well in the Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, (so to speak). Now you would have thought with all the research that I did, that I would have learned my lesson about this mess. You see the power or curse in this picture, was broken in the lives of me and my daughter; however that may, or may not be the case for others who were viewing the picture… This picture was drawn by a child at the behest of a witch. As I explained in the post “Hey Ma, look what I got from Satan”, my child went to a school that had an operating witches coven that was overseen by some of the teachers. The spiritual wickedness ran deep, so much so, that I was compelled to remove my child from that environment, and move her to another school. Oh I can hear the questions now? Did you run from them, where you afraid? Oh heaven’s no! Absolutely not, but as a parent, not only did I take the death threat seriously on a spiritual level, but also on a natural one. These days you can’t be to careful. In a time where school shootings are common place, a child writing on a paper death, and then your childs name over and over, even hidden within a piece of “so called” art, is cause enough to pack your bags. I prayed about my decision, and prayed for the child that did it, more because the child that did it was a victim as well. I say that, because they were guided by someone who knew way more about spiritual wickedness than your average adolescent, and if you go back to the post that I mentioned, and read the research that I did you will see why I made the decisions that I did. Nevertheless, I have decided to publicly apologize to all who have been affected by my foolish decision to keep the picture up as long as I did. Also I would like to apologize to Lavrai who sounded the alarm, and I did not heed that warning. Thankfully my cousin who was visiting from out of town revisited the issue and raised the issue again and literally repeated the warning word for word. I immediately took down the picture. My cousin expressed to me his concern for those that may not be covered under the blood, and what this cursed object could do to them and their household. It was powerless to me and my daughter, but maybe not to others. Just like a demonic movie, every cursed object has demons assigned to it, and we have been commanded by the word of God to not touch the accursed thing. This give demons legal right to step into our homes and lives. I recommend you read my post “you are what you eat” to see why I say this. I could be wrong on some level maybe a little overzealous, however I would rather ere on the side of caution than folly and ignorance.

I would personally like to thank

Lavrai (for telling me about myself long before I had to do this and I didn’t listen, sorry Vrai please forgive me and thanks again love you)

My Cousin CJ (who walks with a spirit of discernment and prophetic anointing and humility that is just beautiful….love you C!)

My mom and dad (who taught me to always be woman enough to admit when your wrong and be willing to go back and get it straight….I love you guys!)

My Daughter (the victim in all of this, who weathered the storm and came out the victor through the shed blood of Jesus and the prayers of her mommy and family (I love you stinky poo)

Everybody else…yall know who you are….Love you guys!

I send my Agape love and hugs to all, remember you can never ever say I love you enough!!!!

~Anointed

Wooweee what a big moooove,  me my two legged baby and my four legged spoiled brat made the big move.   I finally did it Anointed readers,and nearly broke my toe in the process,  the bed railing nailed me right between my big toe and my middle toe!  Yeeeeouch!  It was so swollen they thought it was broken for two days until they got another good look at it after the swelling had subsided.  I ended up getting a tetanus shot because the railing cut into my toe really good.  I have always been able to sing Soprano but never quite as high as I screamed that day..  An- tee- way…. so  much for my gross out story!  Thank God for favor,  everything has been falling into place and it is all by his grace!  Hey that rhymes! (Tee hee).  Well I will get back to blogging as soon as I get something more high speed than what I have now, which is a back door free wireless connection which is unsecured so I don’t want to do to much jibber jabbbing  on this thing (know what I mean?)

Love and hugs

~Anointed

And the academy goes too…….

I would like to thank everybody to made this happen

Thanks

Mom and Dad,  Kourt, Paris, Peety Pete, Stinker, Aunt Dot, Uncle Larry… If yall hadn’t been there to help me move I would be sitting somewhere on the side of the road crying.

Prayer warrior and cheerleaders and support crew: Mawanna, Ma Edwards, Aunt Margaret, First Lady Edwards, Bishop Otey, Bishop Edwards, Nicole, Tamara, Tasha, Jamie, Buster(Elder T), Step Jones,  Others (you know who you are….)

ps:  if I left you out charge it to me head and not to my heart….

Garbage in garbage out…so goes the saying.  These days I am on a health kick that I intend on following the rest of my life.  One of the things that I monitor is what I put in my body,  I noticed that when I stopped eating a lot of processed foods and white sugar,  my weight began to drop faster,  I dropped my blood pressure which was high, and I stopped suffering from pain and fatigue.  Well I looked at what processed foods really were,  and I realized just how much damage I had been doing to my body for so many years.  You see God,  designed the digestive system to process our food.  The process begins with our teeth and our saliva.  Our teeth grind the food into particles small enough to swallow, while the saliva begins the digestive process by introducing digestive enzymes that begin to break down the food while it is still in our mouth.  Once in our stomach,  the food is churned by rhythmic movements called peristalsis, intermittently the food is being further broken down by digestive juices being pumped into the stomach by the gallbladder.  The acid present in the stomach creates the proper pH level for the undigested food bolus, allowing it to better interact with digestive enzymes. Soooo making this looong explanation short….Let’s just say from there the food goes on to the small intestine and does a couple song and dances in there and then  on to the large intestine and then… woosh out the back door!  WOW,  so what I am saying is.. we don’t need our food to be processed for us,  because God gave us our own little processing factory.  Thanks to processed food, and highly refined white sugars,  we are eating and drinking the equivalent of food that has literally already been chewed, digested and uhm you know… pooed.    I believe that over processed food, is part of why we have an obesity epidemic in America and we actually know it!  However several of us, are too lazy to change our ways we just continue to eat our pre chewed,  digested and pooed food.  Well I stopped and I am down over 30 pounds and counting,  I now can run/walk over 5 miles in less than 90 minutes and these aren’t flat miles,  these are miles on a hiking trail with lots of hills.     My resting heart rate is 64 my blood pressure is 119/69  last year my resting heart rate was 92 and my blood pressure was 160/94.    Sooo what is the spiritual significance?  Oh I am so glad you asked!  You see as I do physically,  I mirror spiritually. I had to clean out my bad habits all the way around,  I had to take a close look at everything I was taking in.  I looked at what I was reading, listening to, watching and realized it was as much junk food as the processed food I was eating that made me so overweight and unhealthy.  What did I do?  I got rid of the R&B why?  well why not?  The bible says how can two walk together less they agree,  I don’t agree with premarital sex,  I don’t agree with adultery, I don’t agree with hoeing around, I don’t agree with doing drugs.  A large portion of R&B singers sing about these things,  I in good conscience can not and will not walk in agreement with this.  The bible says to “sing unto the lord a new song”,  God does not want to hear you pining and whining away about some love lost or sleeping with somebody that you are not married to.  The bible says that, “we are to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service”  You cannot present yourself as Holy,  with dirty thoughts floating through your mind.  I am an unmarried woman and it is dangerous for me to eat a diet of dirty music talking about “freakin all night long”,  all this does is build up an appetite in me for something I cannot do.  This presents a dilema,  because Christian women (and men),  know that fornication is wrong,  they end up frustrated.  This frustration can lead you down the dark murky roads of masturbation and eventually creeping out and having sex outside of marriage.  Both practices can come back to haunt you in the worst way,  both are stable marriage slayers.  Masturbation slays a stable marriage,  because it teaches a persons body to respond to vile images and to only one type of stimulation all of which involves self and not your spouse,  the creeping out and having sex comes back to slay a stable marriage by causing the spouse to have to contend with all of the marriage bonds that have been made with each sexual encounter that was made on those so called,  “midnight excursions”.  A lot of singles don’t realize that every sexual encounter represents a marriage in the eyes of God and a soul tie is made.  In order to break this,  God must divorce this person out of your heart and break the soul tie,  or you will take all of your bed partners into your marriage.  So there you have it,  the junk food of R&B and why I don’t feed my ear gates with it,  and why I don’t bother to watch the video’s with my eye gates.  I also monitor what I read,  I don’t read nasty novels that are becoming increasingly popular among single men and women.  Thanks to books and movies like “Waiting to Exhale”,  and “How Stella got her groove back”,  women  (of color) especially, have been clamoring for the latest trashy gossip novels.  All these books do is cause you to become addicted to gossip , meddling in other peoples affairs, and making very bad choices.  My advice…steer clear….I mean very very clear.  As far as what you watch keep it modest,  stay away from horror, nasty (of course) and violent and you know the rest.  I learned the hard way about watching scary stuff,  just read my post about “Fear Factor”.   People you must realize,  a lot of these shows,  have demons assigned to them,  however these demons have no legal right to meddle in your affairs if you don’t watch this stuff.  Just like a Ouija board,  if left in the box, it is harmless and the demons assigned to it just stand around waiting and twiddling their thumbs or hooves or whatever they have.  Along comes curious and BOOM!  All hell breaks loose,  the little slider on the board starts spelling out stuff and everybody get’s scared and things start happening.  Why?  Because you just gave the spirit assigned to that cursed object, legal right to walk into your life,  now you have to close that door and seal it with the blood of Jesus, and never open it again.  These are the lessons that I have learned on my quest to get healthy,  God has shown me that I was spiritually unfit just as much as I was physically unfit,  I was filling myself with processed goods,  Hip Hop, R&B, Neo soul, sensless garbage, soap opera’s, tattle rags, national enquirer, Scary movies, stupid books on nonsensical topics.  This equated to the white sugar that we consume that leads to tooth decay…only for saint’s it leads to Truth decay and so much more….When I did eat what I thought was the right thing, it was still processed.  I watched a bunch of well rehearsed pedantic lectures on “Self” from the book of “Me, myself and I”,  from none other than a bunch of money changers in elaborate temples,  disguised as houses of worship.  I ate it up and licked the plate clean then wondered why I was so spiritually anorexic in some areas,  and suffered from bulimia in others.  I say bulimia because I could never remember the word that was spoken,  it went in one ear and clean out the other.  Saint’s friends  hear me please…  Take it from someone who knows,  don’t make the mistake that I have,  save your spiritual teeth,  chew your own food,  read the word for yourself,  turn off the TV and lay before God,  develop a relationship with him and lay off the processed food in the natural and spiritual.

God bless you all.

Love and hugs

~Anointed

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Wow can you believe it,  Anointed Vessel is finally moving???  I have been in the same house forever and a day and now it’s time to pack up and move on.  Unfortunately,  I may not be able to blog as much for the next week or two.  Once I unpack my laptop I will be back to banging out my opinion on the keys and hoping that people will see what I have to say.  Agreeing with me is optional  hahaha!

~Anointed

hey Anointed Readers,  my site has changed it’s look again.  Not sure what happened but it looks like my sidebars are in the wrong place so I switched my theme to Sandbox so I can go and see if I can correct this using CSS.  For all of you non-webheads,  never mind the shop talk.  Hopefully things will look better soon

Sending out Agape love and hugs to all…Life is short you can never say I love you enough!!

~Anointed

Heres a little more bang for no bucks…

Hello Anointed Readers, I have been asked to link the Congressional Scorecards for Obama and McCain.

This is a non-biased, non-partisan peek at what they believe, outside of the much hyped commercials and pre-written speeches to the contrary. Here is the real deal Holyfield!

Here is where both candidates stand on Abortion

To find the candidate you want just scroll through the names.

www.ppaction.org/ppvotes/scorecard-results.html

You can do more research on your candidates here, it will require some digging though, this site is biased towards the conservative.

www.cwfa.org/main.asp

Here is a neat and tidy comparison between McCain, Obama and Clinton

cnnvsfox.blogspot.com/2008/02/clinton-vs-obama-vs-mccain-voting.html

My reasons are very simple…
Number 1. I volunteer in my community as an EMT on a local rescue squad.
2. I am a ministry worker, within the church and without. Everywhere I go I am on duty to serve others, this is by choice and not by banner. No group has put me up to this, it is my relationship with God almighty that prompts me to be of service to others.
3. I have sisters in the body of Christ and biologically, if I have to join your organization to feel “sister or brotherhood” no thanks.

It may seem harsh to some but BGLO’s are against the word of God, I nearly pledged into one but as usual before I jump into anything I do a little homework. It is the information that I found that ultimately led me away from pledging. I am posting this information courtesy of Brother Phil at EX-BGLO.

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